Used Quotes

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I don't hate them any more like I used to. I just don't like them very much.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.